Means for lighting and extinguishing gas-lights



(No Model.)

D. GIBAUGHMAN.

MEANS FOR LIGHTING AND BXTINGUISHING GAS LIGHTS.

Patented Oct. 23, 1883.

'INVENTOR ATTORNEYS WITNESSES.

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DAVID C. BAUGHMAIL'OF ALBION, INDIANA.

MEANS FOR LIGHTING AND EXTINGUISHING GAS-LIGHTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 287,218, dated October 23, 1883.

Application filed March 3, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, DAVID C. BAUGHMAN, of Albion, in the county of Noble and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Means for Lighting and EX- tinguishing Gas-Lights, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide for opening and closing the cooks or valves of gas -burners from a distance by automatic means, more especially street-lamps, so that the lamps of a given district or section can be extinguished at once, and also lighted simultaneously by electricity.

The invention consists in valve chambers combined with the burners and connected by air-pipes, so that by pressure of air the valves or cocks can be moved, as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a gasburner as fitted with my improvements; and Fig. 2 is an elevation, with the valve or airchamber in section transversely.

The cook or valve a of the burner A has a wing, 21, that is contained ina chamber, B, that is of triangular form, to give space for the swing of thewing b. The chamber B is closed air-tight, and provided with openings 00 at opposite sides of the wing, for connection of gaspiping d d. The wing is packed on its edge to fit closely to the bottom of the chamber B, between the ends of the two pipes d, and the parts so related that the wing, in its extreme position at either side, opens communication between the two pipes. The pipes (Z are to pass from the air-chamber of one burner to another'to any desired number, the ends of the line of pipe extending to or from a station, where suitable apparatus will be providedfor forcing air into one end of the piping.

In operation, the burners being forced into the pipes, the pressure upon the wing b of the first burner in line causes the movement of the wing to the side of the chamber and opens or closes the cock, opening it when air is forced in one direction and closing it when air is forced in the other direction. This movement of the wing allows the air to pass to the pipe at the other side of the chamber, and thus to the next burner, where the operation is repeated, and so on until all the burners are acted on, and the current of air is free to pass out at the other end of the piping, thereby indicatingthat the cooks have all been moved.

As soon as the air-pressure is relieved the wings on the cooks fall by gravity to the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, ready to receive the pressure for reversing the cock. This movement will be allowed by looseness of the cook; but it is not sufficient to open or close the burners.

For street-lamps the tubes will run from, each post to the ground, and underground between posts. I utilize these pipes for covering and protecting the electrical circuit-wires which will pass through the pipes, coming out at each burner, and leading to the tips, as shown at 6, so that when the cooks have been opened, as described, the burners can be lighted by a current of electricity passed through the wires.

By these arrangements street and other gas burners can be readily controlled from a distance in any number, and their instantaneous lighting and extinguishment effected.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The means for controlling gas-burners, consisting of valve-chambers inclosing winged valves at the burners, and connected by tubing, so that air under pressure can be used for operating the valves, substantially as de I scribed.

2. The combination, with a gas-burner, of winged valve a, air-chamber B, and air-pipes d d, substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination, with gas-burner A and air or valve chamber B, of wing b, fitted to move closely to the bottom of the chamber, and the air-pipes dd, connected at opposite sides of the middle position of the wing, substantially as described.

DAVID C. BAUGHMAN.

WVitnesses:

ALTON L. BAUGHMAN, LEVI W. WELKER. 

